São Paulo, Brazil, February 11, 2025 — Renowned creative studio LOBO welcomes multi-faceted artist Cisma (Denis Kamioka) to its roster of talent. Cisma, a self-taught motion designer, animator, and live-action director, began his career at LOBO nearly 20 years ago. His return marks a homecoming following a lush career working in Europe as a globally influential film artist.
Cisma’s filmmaking style combines live-action with heavy post-production elements and art direction. Enabling his boundless imagination to thrive, his vast array of skills come together to create memorable visuals with a sharp cinematic vocabulary. Cisma’s exemplary work has earned a Latin Grammy nomination and many advertising festival wins, including Cannes Lions, Clio’s, D&AD, and One Show Interactive Awards.
Starting as a motion designer and 3D animator, Cisma was quickly recognized by Diesel and asked to join their creative team in Italy. After this, he began shooting mixed-media films in Barcelona, later moving into directing music videos. To date, he’s collaborated with many artists, like Milton Nascimento, Racionais MCs, Tropkillaz, Nação Zumbi, and a music video for Criolo made in partnership with the video game franchise League of Legends. Additionally, Cisma directed sports documentaries “A História de Claudio Kano” for ESPN and “Espírito da Luta” for Canal Combate. He recently directed two episodes of the Netflix series “Sintonia” for their fourth season, reaching #1 on the Netflix Global Non-English chart. His commercial career includes brand films for Lay’s, Adobe, IBM, Fiat Abarth Pulse, Samsung Vivo, Banco Bradesco, Getty Images, a promotional film for Brazilian graffiti artist Os Gemeos, entitled “The Giant,” and much more.
It feels so good to be back home at LOBO,” says Cisma. “This place and these people shaped so much of who I am as a filmmaker. Returning to work with long-time friends and the incredible team that gave me my start 20 years ago, feels natural—like we’re still perfectly in sync.”
LOBO Executive Producer and Partner Luis Ribeiro adds, “Cisma is a singular talent and an endlessly expansive creative mind. He’s a truly gifted motion graphics artist, and now adding live-action and art direction into the mix, Cisma can create anything he envisions. We look forward to partnering him with incredible artistic opportunities and seeing what he makes next.”
We are LOBO, a creative studio dedicated to moving images. With bases in São Paulo and New York City, we master a range of production techniques, including 2D/3D animation, stop motion, CGI, AI-driven workflows, and live action. Our versatile team of artists, developers, and directors handles every aspect of brand campaigns—from pre-production and live action to art direction, animation, cinematography, post-production, and visual effects.
